Posts Tagged ‘disease’

Death rate estimate method for swine flu: inaccurate

Monday, July 27, 2009 21:52 By GSerrano

The method used in estimating the proportion of people who will die if infected with the swine flu virus is inherently flawed, according to UK researchers. The present death rate estimate used in the UK and the US is 0.5 percent or that for every 1000 people infected, about 5 of them will die from [...]

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Poor Countries: Oblivious to Climate Change?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 17:39 By GSerrano

It is widely said that the poor countries are hardest hit by the ill effects of climate change. The question now is: are they even aware of what climate change is all about? Do the supposed victims even know their tragedy?
According to authoritative estimates, ‘99 percent of the casualties linked to climate change occur in [...]

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Darfur needs Obama now

Friday, June 12, 2009 23:49 By GSerrano

There have been other genocides apart from the one in Sudan. There had been systematic killing of populations in Germany, Cambodia, and Rwanda. The difference with the genocide in Darfur is that Omar al-Bashir, the perpetrator of the genocide, carries on his mockery of the justice system, ignores his arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and war crimes issues [...]

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Disease: Scourge of the 21st Century

Thursday, June 4, 2009 17:20 By GSerrano

 

The latest outbreaks in several countries of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu, may just be the harbinger of an impending reality that disease is bound to be the century’s most daunting challenge. Malaria is also rampant in the world, as well as terrifying outbreaks of dengue fever that is said [...]

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‘AIDS Epidemic’: The Real Monster in Zimbabwe?

Sunday, April 19, 2009 20:42 By GSerrano

According to records, AIDS kills 3,000 people a week in Zimbabwe. One million Zimbabweans under 15 years are AIDS orphans. 140,000 children are directly affected. The disease is said to affect one in 10 adults in the country. In comparison, cholera has killed 4,000 people since August. These figures are an indication of how hyped [...]

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Electro-sensitive, what is that?

Monday, November 3, 2008 6:16 By NARUTO

A new unusual disease emerged in one of the most developed countries of the world.
In the light of candles, the sound of archaic typewriter distune the reality of Sweden. But there, hundreds of people were forced to live as they say in the past, away from all that means technology. They are called electro-sensitive.
“It is [...]

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